Call for Short Application and Work-in-Progress Papers

                           SASO 2007
                  International Conference on
           Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems

               Boston, Mass., USA, July 9-11, 2007
             http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/

                Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society,
          Task Force on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems
                       (approval pending)

            Technical Co-Sponsors: ACM SIGOPS, ACM SIGART
           and IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
                       (approval pending)


The complexity of current computer systems has led the software
engineering, distributed systems and management communities to
look for inspiration in diverse fields (e.g., robotics,
artificial intelligence or biology) to find new ways of
designing and managing networks, systems and services. In this
endeavor, self-organization and self-adaptation have emerged
as two promising facets of a paradigm shift.

Self-adaptive systems work in a top-down manner. They evaluate
their own global behavior and change it when the evaluation
indicates that they are not accomplishing what they were
intended to do, or when better functionality or performance is
possible. Self-organizing systems work bottom-up. They are
composed of a large number of components that interact locally
according to simple rules. The global behavior of the system
emerges from these local interactions, and it is difficult to
deduce properties of the global system by studying only the
local properties of its parts.

This edition of SASO will focus on engineering, as opposed
to speculative and conjectural visions. Contributions should
present novel theoretical results, or practical experience
with building systems, tools, frameworks, etc. Contributions
contrasting different approaches for engineering a given
family of systems, or demonstrating the applicability of a
certain approach for different systems are particularly
encouraged.

For the Applications Track, SASO 2007 seeks short application
and work-in-progress papers. These submissions should report
on experience with self-adaptive or self-organizing systems,
or present preliminary research work with a high potential
for practical applications. Industrial experience papers are
welcomed too.

All submissions will be reviewed by members of the Program
Committee. Selected short papers will be presented during
dedicated sessions and published in the conference proceedings.

TOPICS

o Self-* properties: 
  - self-organization
  - self-adaptiveness
  - self-management
  - self-monitoring
  - self-tuning
  - self-repair
  - self-configuration
  - etc.
o Theories, frameworks and methods for self-* systems
o Management and control of self-* systems
o Robustness and dependability of self-* systems
o Engineering and control of emergent properties in self-*
  systems
o Biologically and socially inspired self-* systems

SYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGIES

o P2P applications
o Mobile robots
o Sensor networks
o Mobile ad hoc networks
o Grids
o Embedded systems, ubiquitous computing
o Autonomic computing, autonomic communications
o Computer networks, telecommunication networks
o Multi-agent systems
o E-business systems and services
o Complex adaptive systems

RESEARCH COMMUNITIES

o Distributed artificial intelligence
o Networking
o Software engineering
o Distributed systems
o Integrated management
o Robotics
o Knowledge-based systems
o Machine learning
o Control theory
o Mathematical optimization

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

All submissions should be 4 pages and formatted according to
the IEEE Computer Society Press style guide (see URL on the
conference website). Papers should be formatted in PDF and
submitted online at:  https://jems.sbc.org.br/saso2007
Please select "Applications Track" when filling in the
submission form.

IMPORTANT DATES

February 26: Submission deadline
March 26: Notification of acceptance/rejection
April 6: Deadline for camera-ready copy

CONTACT

All inquiries should be sent to the SASO 2007 Applications
Track Chair:

Franco Zambonelli
Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
franco.zambonelli@unimore.it

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